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Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on May 27, 2015 news conference:
"It’s commercial vehicles, 18 wheelers and above … that cause 90 plus percent of the damages on our highways and bridges."  
Half-True
By Mark Reynolds • July 19, 2015
Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly
stated on May 13, 2015 a broadcast of "The Kelly File":
The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash "wasn't driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 18, 2015
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on May 13, 2015 remarks to reporters:
"It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation" of a positive train control safety system. "To deny a connection between the (derailment in Philadelphia) and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2015
Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
stated on March 31, 2015 a news report:
Delta has had the most animal deaths among U.S. carriers in the past five years
Half-True
By April Hunt • April 29, 2015
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on April 1, 2015 a speech:
Austin has "gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested — more congested than NYC."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 28, 2015
Jim Steineke
Jim Steineke
stated on November 19, 2014 a tweet:
The streetcar project planned by Mayor Tom Barrett would be a "1900s style trolley."
Half-True
By James B. Nelson • January 16, 2015
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on October 25, 2014 a Let's Go Austin mailer:
"The Austin Tea Party and an ultra-conservative millionaire are behind the" campaign against the city’s light-rail proposition.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 29, 2014
No Tax For Tracks
No Tax For Tracks
stated on September 30, 2014 an email newsletter:
The Greenlight Pinellas 1-cent sales tax "is permanent, we never get to vote on this again."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • October 14, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 10, 2014 a fundraising email:
"All Aboard Florida is receiving millions in Florida taxpayer dollars."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2014
No Tax For Tracks
No Tax For Tracks
stated on April 9, 2014 a website post:
"Light rail does not reduce congestion."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • July 3, 2014
Texas Future
Texas Future
stated on May 8, 2014 a web video:
"One thousand people a day are moving to Texas, which means there will be 15 million more people over the next 25 years."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2014
Matt Caldwell
Matt Caldwell
stated on April 30, 2014 a Florida House discussion of SB 392:
There is no "incontrovertible proof that speed, in and of itself, is the contributing factor to increasing (vehicular) fatalities."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • May 12, 2014
Bob Cole
Bob Cole
stated on March 31, 2014 morning radio show on KOKE-FM:
Capital Metro originally said MetroRail's yearly operating costs would be "about $2.5 million. Last year ... it cost $13 million to operate."
Half-True
By Sue Owen • April 24, 2014
Chris Chocola
Chris Chocola
stated on March 19, 2014 an op-ed supporting Senate candidate Chris McDaniel:
Says Sen. Thad Cochran "voted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ... the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska instead of shifting the money to repair a bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2014
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on March 7, 2014 a speech:
When it comes to transportation funds, Georgians spend more in taxes and on red tape than they get back from the federal government.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • March 7, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 7, 2014 a tweet:
Texas added 6,600 miles of highway from 2001-2012, more than any other state.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • January 28, 2014
Sid Covington
Sid Covington
stated on October 28, 2013 an opinion column by Sid Covington, the district's chairman of the board:
A planning group said that to meet anticipated traffic demands by 2035, Interstate 35 between Austin and Round Rock will need a dozen additional lanes going north and 14 additional southbound lanes.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 6, 2013
Earl Blumenauer
Earl Blumenauer
stated on September 24, 2013 an article on his website.:
Says "between 6 and 20 bicycles can be parked in the space required by one car."
Half-True
By Dana Tims • October 9, 2013
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on August 24, 2013 a column:
Because of Gov. Scott Walker’s budgeting, a greater percentage of general fund tax dollars is "going to pay off debt than ever before in our history."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • September 2, 2013
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on August 22, 2013 an interview:
"Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa already have 70 mph" speed limits on rural interstates, and "we see that they’ve been able to do it safely."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • September 1, 2013
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